Section 9. Lieutenant Colonel Juanita L. Warman Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman lived in Avella as a child and attended elementary school and junior high school there.
(2) Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman attended the former Langley High School in Pittsburgh and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a master's degree in nursing.
(3) Lt. Col. Warman worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for a portion of her career, joined the United States Army and, as a psychiatric nurse practitioner, served in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2006.
(4) Lt. Col. Warman was an expert in post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.
(5) Lt. Col. Warman served a year in Germany at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a medical facility where soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq were treated before being returned to the United States, and regularly volunteered for trips to care for soldiers being transported to Landstuhl.
(6) For her meritorious service at Landstuhl, Lt. Col. Warman was awarded the Army Commendation Medal in 2006.
(7) On November 5, 2009, while at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas, for deployment to Iraq, Lt. Col Warman was killed during a shooting rampage in which 13 people were killed and 30 more were injured.
(8) Lt. Col. Warman's military career spanned 25 years in active duty and the Army reserves.
(b) Designation.--The section of Pennsylvania Route 50 in Independence Township, Washington County, from Segment 70 to Segment 80 is designated the Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman Memorial Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to traffic in both directions on the highway.